Wikipedia defines Internationalism thus
Internationalism is a political principle which advocates a greater political or economic cooperation among nations and peoples, and whose ideological roots can be traced to both socialism and liberalism.
While I have subscribed to many -isms, Internationalism is fairly new and quite at its nascent form. It has grown on me increasingly in recent years as I saw governments and citizens become more Nationalistic. Nationalism, per-se, is a noble quality that helps in uniting a Nation, propelling it to greater heights, through a healthy competition, with peer Nations. But the current, right wing, almost militaristic Nationalism which shoves down ideas down throats and labels anyone who protests the shoving as an anti-national is something I have grown to detest and Internationalism seems to be a viable alternate on many fronts.
I have a Dream...
...And this dream sums up an ideal world based on Internationalism. The dream is about the United Federal States of Earth (UFSE), a fantasy country-planet (modeled around city-state) maybe a reality in an Alternate Universe.
UFSE has no Central Government. Only a Supreme Council with elected representatives from every federal state. Monetary policy is managed by a committee of bankers with representation of the federal states and the economy left to the individual states. The federal states are partitioned based on language, race or whichever way the people want themselves to be identified. The Supreme Council vets applications requesting for statehood to create such states and helps in creating new federal states when the demand arise. A constitution guarantees the basic rights to all citizens and gives legality to the committees, councils and a Supreme Court helps in upholding the constitution and laws.
The federal states are free to have their own system of governance and bureaucracy. However, law and order are not the state's subject. Since there are no defense personnel and other associated military expenditures, the police force is strong and well organized. They are constrained by law and report to the Supreme Council. Given the diversity in race, language and ethnicity among the police force there are no biases in dealing with law and order. The Supreme committee headed by representatives operate in an open and transparent manner and given the lack of incentives in capturing power ensures that the police is not misused to bring down the federal setup. The federal setup together has a representative committee called the Federal committee with nominated members.
The Federal committee, Supreme Council and the Supreme Court act as the pillars of the union with the fourth pillar provided by an open and enthusiastic media with greater social participation leveraging the Information and Communication technologies.
Such a world would be more at peace with itself, the environment and the universe. And this is not that difficult to bring to fruition. Even the worst of the enemies have come together to form unions (European Union) and even nuclear neighbors (India and Pakistan) still have a lot in common between themselves than differences. People to people contact helps healing wounds and the all powerful police force can bring under control the worst of the riots given their abilities. Education can be unbiased and development would be to the benefit of humanity. Religion would be constrained to personal beliefs and while religion could still be the basis for a federal state, the fanaticism based on religion will be dealt with by the strong arm of the global police. Economic equality, equality in opportunities and a true, free market would be a reality.
The federal states are free to have their own system of governance and bureaucracy. However, law and order are not the state's subject. Since there are no defense personnel and other associated military expenditures, the police force is strong and well organized. They are constrained by law and report to the Supreme Council. Given the diversity in race, language and ethnicity among the police force there are no biases in dealing with law and order. The Supreme committee headed by representatives operate in an open and transparent manner and given the lack of incentives in capturing power ensures that the police is not misused to bring down the federal setup. The federal setup together has a representative committee called the Federal committee with nominated members.
The Federal committee, Supreme Council and the Supreme Court act as the pillars of the union with the fourth pillar provided by an open and enthusiastic media with greater social participation leveraging the Information and Communication technologies.
Such a world would be more at peace with itself, the environment and the universe. And this is not that difficult to bring to fruition. Even the worst of the enemies have come together to form unions (European Union) and even nuclear neighbors (India and Pakistan) still have a lot in common between themselves than differences. People to people contact helps healing wounds and the all powerful police force can bring under control the worst of the riots given their abilities. Education can be unbiased and development would be to the benefit of humanity. Religion would be constrained to personal beliefs and while religion could still be the basis for a federal state, the fanaticism based on religion will be dealt with by the strong arm of the global police. Economic equality, equality in opportunities and a true, free market would be a reality.
